People call every year "a year of crypto", because they are holding crypto and want it to rise, simple as that. If you look closely, this phrase "a year of crypto" can mean anything - a year of userbase growth, a year of price growth, a year of technological advancement, or even all of that. We are currently experiencing a bull run (some people argue that it's a trap), and Bitcoin keeps getting improvements, and amount of transactions increases, so can we say that it's the year of crypto? I don't think so, because so far it's nothing spectacular, the last year of crypto was 2017, when we reached ATH, and everyone were talking about crypto, even national television channels.
You do see this sediment every year from the crypto community because they want to keep optimistic on the future of the assets they hold of whatever coin it is they are holding. What other choice would they have not too? 
Even with mcafee saying it will reach $100k by end of the year is a far fetched prediction but he believes in it in which he will sacrifice his own male anatomy to proof it to be true. But he is a gambler so of course he would double down on the actual acceptable price some think it could reach but not this year.
Maybe in the year 2020 when there are more invested into it such as greyscale who wants people to trade their gold and get into crypto gets more known on a global scale.
